Okaloosa County commissioners announced that Charles Walthall would be the new county extension director. The vacancy was created upon the retirement of Jack Patten.

Okaloosa County authorities were gearing up for a hurricane drill. In the scenario, a killer hurricane was expected to make landfall with 200 mph winds and a 25-foot storm surge.

20 years ago – 1995

Greg Newburn of Mary Esther was named as a U.S. House of Representatives page.

The City of Fort Walton Beach Police Department established a Home Page on the Internet.

10 years ago – 2005

Though the sight of gas pumps wrapped in plastic remained common throughout Northwest Florida, station managers were saying lines were shrinking and the situation following Hurricane Dennis was improving.

Dozens of people waited along the shaded sidewalk outside of the auditorium at the Okaloosa-Walton College/University of West Florida Fort Walton Beach campus. As soon as they completed a one-page application, they were taken inside to talk to an eligibility counselor for the Disaster Food Stamp Program. Most people qualified.

5 years ago – 2010

A jury needed only about two hours to convict Augusta Frederick Kennedy on three counts of BUI-manslaughter.

All booms deployed along local shores in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon gusher were being pulled from the water because of the threat from the tropical depression in the Caribbean.

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